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Research Trends of Urban Sanitation Studies in Japan: Focusing on Modern Japanese History

open access: yes, 2020
The purpose of this paper was to examine the kinds of research conducted on the subject of urban sanitation in modern Japanese history. Studies on sanitation began to attract attention as hygiene (sanitation) was recognized as a major issue explaining ...
김영수
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Blantyre transformed: Class, conflict and nationalism in urban Malawi [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
There are good reasons why the remarkable outpouring of work on Southern African urban history that has taken place over the last twenty years has largely bypassed Malawi. To the overwhelmingly rural character of the Malawi economy must be added the weak
JOHN McCRACKEN, McCracken, Kenneth
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Distinct Systemic Sclerosis Phenotypes Related to Ethnicity: An Opportunity to Personalize Care?

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective is to describe and compare demographic, clinical, and serological characteristics of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) according to ethnic background. Methods Participants enrolled in the Canadian Scleroderma Research Group cohort who self‐identified to a single ethnicity group were included.
Danick Goulet   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Sense of Time and Place: Gilbert Stelter's Contribution to Urban History

open access: yes, 2000
These remarks were presented at “The Urban Academic,” a conference in honour of the retirement of Dr. Gil Stelter, September 26, 1998, at the University of Guelph.
Taylor, John
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Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elephant‐Skin‐Inspired Porous Cementitious Tiles with Programmable Crack Networks for Passive Cooling

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard): An Aerial Robotic Swarm for Autonomous Detection and Entrapment of Rogue Multirotors

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cigarette Smoke‐Induced Alveolar Macrophage Senescence via GEM/SIRT3‐Mediated Mitochondrial Dysfunction

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Cigarette smoke accelerates the aging of immune cells in the lung. By combining human single‐cell sequencing, cell culture, and mouse models, the authors show that the protein GEM drives mitochondrial damage and senescence in alveolar macrophages by suppressing SIRT3.
Jin Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Italy

open access: yes, 2006
The essay gives the results of an inquiry on the teaching of urban history in Italian universities, showing the strong variation in course denominations and disciplinary definition, going from the history of architecture to social and economic ...
FAVERO G., LANARO P
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